How to Burn Calories While Surfing the Net
Can you imagine if you knew the secret of how to burn calories while doing nothing? Well, the truth is you are already burning calories doing nothing. Just not a whole lot of them. If you want to know how to kick your calorie-burning-while-doing-nothing into overdrive, then read on…
Cardiovascular exercise will torch calories, but resistance training is a big part of the equation if you want to burn fat. Boosting your muscle mass increases your metabolism, so you burn more calories all the time, even when you’re not working out. - from www.WebMD.com
Allow me to translate: Running your butt off will burn calories (and this is a good thing, considering what you may have had for dinner last night), but lifting weights or doing body weight exercises should also be done if you want to burn fat (you
know the stuff that isn’t attributed to just last night’s dinner).
Increasing your muscle mass (yes, I’m talking to you ladies, too) will increase how fast you burn calories all the time, even when you are not working out (like when you’re reading blogs online).
The main goal here is to Increase Muscle Mass. You can do this by using this 2 pronged approach:
1. Include Strength Training in your exercise routine. This includes lifting weights or doing body weight exercises. You can accomplish a lot with just an exercise ball and a set of dumbbells. Or you can look up body weight exercises online such as squats or pushups or other unique exercises that maybe you hadn’t thought of.
2. Eat More Protein in your diet. Right after you get done working out, it is especially important to get some protein in your body to help increase your muscle building process. Protein drinks are great for this. There are also protein bars or you can focus on eating a high protein meal. Good sources of protein include: protein powder, lean meat, poultry, fish, eggs and peanut butter.
So, the bottom line is - if you’re interested in getting your butt body to a place where it will burn calories while you surf the net, the best way to do this is to increase your muscle mass - and the best way to do that is to follow the 2 pronged approach outlined above.
Such great info.! Welcome back!
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This is something I feel a lot of people don’t understand. Building muscle will help burn more calories at rest…which, like you said, is a great thing! Great post!
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@Blake - Thanks. My hope is to get the word out about “increasing muscle mass”. It’s such an extremely important weapon in the arsenal of fighting fat.
I coudn’t agree more. It’s essential to biuld lean muscle mass to assist with permanent weight loss.
Thanks for posting this!
great article…good job..
I don’t think surfing internet burn calories. Its strange and hard to believe.
@kingston dentists - Clearly, you read the title and NOT the post. The post explains why it’s not so “strange or hard to believe” that we burn calories all the time.